Dr. Courtney Snyder, MD — Holistic & Functional Child and Adult Psychiatrist
Dr. Courtney Snyder, MD is an international expert and leading voice in holistic, functional and environmental psychiatry for children and adults. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, she has worked with thousands of patients and her educational work, through the Holistic Psychiatry Newsletter on her website and Substack, along with her Holistic Psychiatry Podcast and YouTube channel, reaches audiences in over 160 countries.
Dr. Snyder offers telehealth psychiatric care to patients in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Florida. She also provides non-patient consultations to individuals and practitioners nationally and internationally, bringing her functional perspective to complex cases that have not responded to conventional approaches.
Dr. Snyder received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her General Psychiatry training at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University of Louisville School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Family Therapy at UofL. In her early private practice, she specialized in treating families with children adopted from international orphanages who presented with complex trauma.
She was away from clinical medicine for ten years — a period that proved transformative. While raising her daughter and navigating both her daughter's and her own complex health challenges, she immersed herself in the evolving research on the microbiome, oxidative stress and epigenetics. That decade of deep study and lived experience fundamentally reshaped her approach to psychiatry and gave birth to her current practice.
Upon returning to medicine, Dr. Snyder was among the first U.S. physicians trained in Advanced Nutrient Therapies by the Walsh Research Institute, where she later served as faculty for the Advanced Practitioner Workshop. She was a Founding Member of the International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness and has studied and trained with a number of pioneers in their fields, including Dr. Gregory Keck and Arleta James (attachment and complex trauma), Dr. William Walsh and Dr. Albert Mensah (nutrient imbalances in brain disorders), Dr. Elizabeth Mumper (integrative approaches to autism), Dr. Neil Nathan (complex chronic illness and environmental medicine) and Dr. Carolyn McMaken (Frequency Specific Microcurrent in brain disorders).
Throughout her career, Dr. Snyder has balanced clinical practice with writing, teaching and advocacy. She currently teaches through the Holistic Psychiatry Newsletter on her website and Substack, along with her Holistic Psychiatry Podcast and YouTube channel. She also co-leads a physician support group with Dr. Neil Nathan for practitioners treating patients with complex chronic health issues. Her community platform is coming soon.
Dr. Snyder's mission is to offer a balanced, root-cause approach to healing and to provide information and hope for those living with brain-related symptoms — as well as for the physicians, nurse practitioners, therapists and other professionals who serve them.
Dr. Courtney Snyder, MD is an international expert and leading voice in holistic, functional and environmental psychiatry for children and adults. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, she has worked with thousands of patients and her educational work, through the Holistic Psychiatry Newsletter on her website and Substack, along with her Holistic Psychiatry Podcast and YouTube channel, reaches audiences in over 160 countries.
Dr. Snyder offers telehealth psychiatric care to patients in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Florida. She also provides non-patient consultations to individuals and practitioners nationally and internationally, bringing her functional perspective to complex cases that have not responded to conventional approaches.
Dr. Snyder received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her General Psychiatry training at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University of Louisville School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Family Therapy at UofL. In her early private practice, she specialized in treating families with children adopted from international orphanages who presented with complex trauma.
She was away from clinical medicine for ten years — a period that proved transformative. While raising her daughter and navigating both her daughter's and her own complex health challenges, she immersed herself in the evolving research on the microbiome, oxidative stress and epigenetics. That decade of deep study and lived experience fundamentally reshaped her approach to psychiatry and gave birth to her current practice.
Upon returning to medicine, Dr. Snyder was among the first U.S. physicians trained in Advanced Nutrient Therapies by the Walsh Research Institute, where she later served as faculty for the Advanced Practitioner Workshop. She was a Founding Member of the International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness and has studied and trained with a number of pioneers in their fields, including Dr. Gregory Keck and Arleta James (attachment and complex trauma), Dr. William Walsh and Dr. Albert Mensah (nutrient imbalances in brain disorders), Dr. Elizabeth Mumper (integrative approaches to autism), Dr. Neil Nathan (complex chronic illness and environmental medicine) and Dr. Carolyn McMaken (Frequency Specific Microcurrent in brain disorders).
Throughout her career, Dr. Snyder has balanced clinical practice with writing, teaching and advocacy. She currently teaches through the Holistic Psychiatry Newsletter on her website and Substack, along with her Holistic Psychiatry Podcast and YouTube channel. She also co-leads a physician support group with Dr. Neil Nathan for practitioners treating patients with complex chronic health issues. Her community platform is coming soon.
Dr. Snyder's mission is to offer a balanced, root-cause approach to healing and to provide information and hope for those living with brain-related symptoms — as well as for the physicians, nurse practitioners, therapists and other professionals who serve them.
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